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Getting Started with Citrix XenApp 6.5

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Getting Started with Citrix XenApp 6.5

Overview of this book

XenApp is the leader in application hosting and virtualization delivery, allowing users from different platforms such Windows, Mac, Linux, and mobile devices to connect to their business applications. Using XenApp, you can deploy secure applications quickly to thousands of users.XenApp 6.5 brings with it exciting new features such as a brand new management console, Instant App access, Multi-stream ICA, Single Sign-on and SmartAuditor enhancements, and more.Getting Started with Citrix XenApp 6.5 provides comprehensive details on how to design, implement, and maintain Citrix farms based on XenApp 6.5. Additionally, you will learn to use management tools and scripts for daily tasks such as managing servers, published resources, printers, and connections.Getting Started with Citrix XenApp 6.5 starts by introducing the basics and new features of the brand new version such as installing servers and configuring components, and then teaches you how to publish applications and resources on the client device before moving on to configuring content redirection. Author Guillermo Musumeci includes a use case throughout the book to explain advanced topics like creating management scripts and deploying and optimizing XenApp for Citrix XenServer, VMware ESX, and Microsoft Hyper-V virtual machines. It will guide you through an unattended installation of XenApp and components on physical servers. By the end of this book you will have enough knowledge to successfully design and manage your own XenApp 6.5 Farms.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
Getting Started with Citrix XenApp 6.5
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
Acknowledgement
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Understanding XenApp policies


In the Active Directory, a Group Policy contains two categories (also called nodes): Computer Configuration and User Configuration settings.

  • The Computer Configuration node contains policy settings applied to computers and our XenApp servers, when we use GPO to manage servers.

  • The User Configuration node contains settings applied to users accessing the machine, the XenApp server in our case the XenApp server, regardless from which client they log on.

XenApp policies also have the same categories: computer and user.

  • Computer policy settings in Citrix are applied to XenApp servers. When the server is rebooted, these policies are applied to the server.

  • User policy settings are used for the duration of the session and are applied to user sessions. Policy settings changes can also take effect when XenApp re-evaluates policies every 90 minutes.

XenApp policies are the preferred way to manage session settings or user access and the most effective method of controlling connection...